joy be hotel rooms the home of the lights the gateway hotel the grand imperial trilogy the torch was there. you can know what it's mostly civility to go and. read this in the kennel was a hotel treat. a snap cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to lift the massive ball gary a cruiser that sank a week ago i mean one hundred twenty nine lives. led to the murdoch media scandal claims another scalp has britain's top cop quits over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking because a. libyan rebels have been recognized as a legitimate governing authority in the country by the u.s. and thirty other countries but colonel gadhafi remains defiant in val's never to leave libya as nato airstrikes continue. and

a transatlantic cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency . and bringing you the top news and headlines from around the world this is r.t. direct from russia's capital moscow. russian emergency crews are to restart efforts to lift of the wreck of a sunken cruiser which went down in the river volga last week killing one hundred twenty nine people including many children a cable snapped during recovery efforts which have had to restart the cruise or bulgaria went down in minutes leaving most of the two hundred eight passengers no chance of escape and one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters artie's tom barton reports from the site of a catastrophe. as if to demonstrate just how difficult

a covering the ball there is going to be the cable holding it just snapped for the norm mighty bang the crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whipped up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps the later to be put under it is served to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if there were divers under there they could have been in great danger from the snapping cable they'd previously been trying to turn the ship around to get into position in order that they could right the ship and then bring it up to the surface but there's a lot of other complications involved very poor visibility a lot of weight involved and a long a long and lengthy process is going to be needed we were told just recently by a spokesman from the emergencies ministry it's going to take many days before they can begin to even start raising the ship that's going to come as a blow to all the investigators who were hoping for answers to come from the raising of the ship and all the relatives and survivors waiting on the bank for

some news of the remaining fifteen bodies a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played live they the flowers and candles a testament to the children those who drowned when the pleasure boat the bulgarian sank in the volga last sunday. we study together for a year she never had arguments with anyone sure the very kind to go and it was always really to help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror. is that people were basically buried alive in anti-matter coffin he managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rest leave her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my. was gone in the chaos to escape many other families were also torn

apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son in the strong current oil slick had to watch him drown and found yuri was the d.j. for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw broken window and the sailors started pushing people around through it at that moment waves on the surface and then sold the board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain is wife and child never made it out. meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast

river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in a panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up. the divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question the cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an aging dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses people connected with the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management forced it to keep sailing. i became

captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven ship hadn't even been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them port authorities say they were lied to the ship was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people but was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty more tales of bound including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocked emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests been made to the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into white to ships which reach the scene before. all the arabella didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead took pictures on them mobile phones where you have is closer to you and you will hold the passengers were

shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft and many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding when we yelled for help before i saw the boats passers by anything from direction towards. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's play room where a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shipping disasters tom bottom party. in an exclusive interview with our t.v. captain of a ship who helped rescue most of the survivors from the bulgaria as described the horrific scene you can watch his dramatic account in twenty minutes here on our t.v. on our website or if you doctor. britain's most senior police officer has

resigned of the latest high profile casualty caught up in the news of the world phone hacking scandal which continues to escalate sir paul stephenson quit as metropolitan police commissioner commissioner following revelations he hired a former deputy editor of the paper who'd been arrested by his own officers investigating illegal accessing of mobile phones and corruption the former news of the world editor back of brooks was arrested and questioned for twelve hours as part of the same probe before being released on bail media analyst phil reese says the practice of police being paid for information by the media is not likely to disappear anytime soon so this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using arrest they've been leaking they're being paid for telling people when celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is actually a practice and it's becoming trying now in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice but i

don't think it's going to deflect opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now an indian summer to the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and we those people who have been corrupted different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a leaven thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investigation and these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this and meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the and ok empire they were they were meeting them for drinks privately one even hired them at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police. look at the example that gives to

officers down down the lines now you could well ask you know can any organization properly examine itself but so much is that stake that if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem and i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees things that investigative qualities within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this little loan all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is is is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. meanwhile rupert murdoch is trying to rescue news corp's crumbling reputation he's spent the last forty eight hours apologizing for the phone hacking scandal with full page newspaper advertisements while also meeting the family of a murdered teenager whose voicemail was intercepted and reports it's a watershed moment for the cozy relationship between britain's politicians and the

press. good every media outlet and on t.v. radio even the scariest part imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at it oh no rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand names which the police have have since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they got promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they've not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b.

look sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits from sky b. . to investing in the times and if you are for example of the guardian or the daily telegraph you would welcome that it's not just rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. b. sky. and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead. because. that would suit the government just fine

the british press is famous for its sharp teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is to water it as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right. as it is possible to control the media. he is one beautiful man murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a launch section of the case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now reveals that the police have known

about it for years nor am it artsy. so ahead this hour the dangers of a good performance we examine why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial nightmare and what it my duty to try to avoid it. and rover square a four wheeled frenzy as a high speed formula one super cars screech through the center of moscow. new nato airstrikes have hit the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli now. colonel qadhafi valve's he'll never leave his country this comes after his opponents have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority by over thirty nations led by the u.s. they said they would deal with the rebel transitional national council until an interim government is in place new measures that give the insurgents access to cut off his assets including billions of dollars which have been frozen in american

banks but as political commentator ted ross says the move marks a radical shift but the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in the capital that is in power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one nine hundred ninety six to two thousand and one civil conflict there between the taliban in the northern alliance the northern alliance who were the former regime that had power in kabul and enjoyed diplomatic relations with the west even though the taliban controlled ninety five percent of the country it sounds just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing it's a bizarre situation i mean if the u.s. knows who these people are they're not seeing and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihad these feeling around in ghazi so it's unrealistic to

assume that that is not still the case the u.s. is an amazing bit of shipping skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands and that really going to happen. the recognition of the rebels by more nations may bolster their spirits but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended with heavy opposition casualties as daniel bushell reports it's thought now that france is trying the tactic of talks with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to khadafi. books is like bragging will destroy their reply lives they're often wrong it gets a mills decent price i were french foreign minister ireland should pay both did france with libya encroached days or weeks the wars in soft fourth month and the final round inside just because sarkozy with his western allies

seemed short their little opponents fighting back well it's not just an environment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato for the whole west piracy even admits all the libya's rebels will return some somalia wench to libya for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have the fire records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western supports of some of that will groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in the country. person. giving. none of. this. witnesses had made me go of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every

one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians for all categorically rule dealt same with the real troops but experience predicted the only way down to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partner italy admits invading libya was a mistake brochure abstain did the us vote. would bring havoc in libya which would you pay said the latest tool to help support so years of growth will quote lloyd lead diplomat should be relatively easy. with elections just annoying months away psagot advised is that a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion crash for france's deeply unpopular president. sarkozy's a jogging fan's excessive sweating is understandable as his libyan spring is

turning into a mouse and the new bush will see paris. now let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the globe. egypt's former president hosni mubarak has suffered a heart attack and is in a coma according to his lawyers but denied by health officials and state t.v. doctors were reportedly working to bring the eighty three year old the posed leader to consciousness speculation about mubarak's condition has intensified as the date of his trial on charges of corruption and the on lawful killing of protesters approached. the venezuelan president hugo chavez is back in cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy no more malignant cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a tumor from his pelvic region he transferred some powers to his ministers during his absence but didn't agree to opposition calls for a temporary handover of all presidential authority his battle with cancer has

raised doubts over his fitness to leave the country but he still plans to run for reelection next year. a senior aide and a close ally of the afghan president hamid karzai has been killed in the capital kabul after a group of armed men attacked his home a member of parliament also died in the attack the taliban said it was responsible claiming it was one of their biggest achievements in a decade the attack happened on the day the u.s. started handing over control of some of afghanistan's provinces to local security forces and a less than a week after the assassination of president karzai his half brother. clock is ticking for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its massive national debt to avert the looming possibility of default. second is the deadline for raising the nation's fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling president obama has urged the republican controlled house of representatives to come up with whatever mechanisms it can to ensure the u.s.

can continue to pay its bills analysts say if washington lacks the money interest rates could skyrocket and the value of the dollar could decline the seriousness of the situation was reinforced when two rating agencies threatened to downgrade the united states price to aaa rating but even if the budget were proved investor jim rogers says it's unlikely to solve america's debt problem. you know and the state already has been downgraded in the world markets every i'm not the only person who knows that the united states is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world look at their value of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase and. there's no question about that their choice though for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a chain saw to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do that they might announce they're going to do it for it is to get the budget ceiling passed but it's not going to have any effect everybody sees that washington

is not going to solve this problem and more and more people are looking for something to replace the u.s. dollars. a moment of destiny is also approaching for the eurozone struggling to contain sovereign debt crisis italy became the latest european country to approve a tough seventy billion euro cuts package including higher taxes and lower pensions meanwhile greece's prime minister has appealed to the country's european partners to break up and and the eurozone is continuing turmoil as comes as eight out of ninety one european banks failed stress tests to see if they could survive another major economic crisis british euro and p. not all believes that the eurozone can cope with greece but it if italy goes then trouble is unavoidable but this was always about politics it was not our economics the idea that you could have economies in the mediterranean in line with economies

like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to break the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back on their national potencies devalue their growth moving. to exports going in at the moment because if you think that because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or listen or even talk of we see the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people who are out in the streets in rome run in lisbon on him talk on this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the british you know freezing the european union is italy and italy is the third largest economy and your those only late largest economy in the world i think you also can actually cope with greece and portugal very small economies if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because italy goes italy's economy into trying for spain under spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble. in the struggle for land rights in israel there

is one place that's still a deserted territory it used to be a flourishing palestinian community but now israelis are eyeing it up as a luxury getaway or trees or possibly or has the story. this old in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel is. the answer to be. i village. hard since this. also. on my car there. among the cacti and fick trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of our villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original

houses of lifter are still here so they really were headed to the. they will shoot to the middle of the hall with a whole group a whole. hour mother of us inside the room in a corner and then there has been so as to protect us here cook was one of seven hundred thousand palestinians who became a refugee in one nine hundred forty eight his childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established jewish state almost lived in london for. he was forced to do just because you were rewritten he was considered as absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you on your comments parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries will likely become dangerous after israel was created the israeli government sent him to live a gift or your lease is to prevent arab owners from returning when they came here

for the believe here in a year without water without electricity the carom here are those that are for this memory here are very important most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has litanies how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls we wild flowers and grass no grow if there is empty. and it's untrue that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a ship hotel shops and a museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history but we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been conserved there will also be documentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but really lucky i could say it's palestinian land and

a double injustice. to destroy our house and. now any. forward that there are three will came from anywhere in this where and why i come and my feelings and come back. back to my freedom and. this only made me. and. so i'm going for kind of stimulants if there is a physical the mind of injustice and survival but for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore and they'd rather not be reminded of what happened here every time they drive into jerusalem put a c.r.t. lift. several moscow streets were impassable on sunday afternoon but not because of the new tourist traffic jams they were sealed off temporarily to become the realm of the fast and the furious in

a high octane performance formula one drivers burned some serious rubber against the amazing backdrop of the kremlin was it was all part of the annual moscow city racing show featuring famous f one drivers and the winners of the world rally championships it's a taste of things to come for russian f one fans as the country will get its own grand prix in three years time. and i will recap today's and this week's main stories for you in just a few moments don't go away. well

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